Summer is coming. And with that so does Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival. For the past couple of years, the festival has been shepherding genre projects together via the Frontières International Co-Production Market, which gives the opportunity for filmmakers to meet... More »

If you are like me and sometimes lament that slasher films are not funky enough, or do not bring the boogie, then lament no more. Black Fawn Distro is bringing disco back to Canada. They will be releasing Renaud Gauthier's... More »

Just a quick reminder to all you budding and veteran feature filmmakers out there that the deadline for submissions to this year's Frontières Internation Film Market at the Fantasia Film Festival is April 19! That is just three weeks away!From... More »

Having already enjoyed two successful years at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal the Market Director of Frontières International Co-Production Market, Stephanie Trepanier, is taking her show on the road (really, I just think she was looking for an... More »

I sat down with Library Wars director Sato Shinsuke the morning after his film screened at Fantasia. We were already accustomed to each other as we had only parted ways six hours earlier after closing out the pub. Coffee was... More »

Three weeks after its opening film the dust has settled and the Fantasia Film Festival has drawn to a close. We were at ground zero for the entire duration taking in films, eating smoked meat sandwiches and poutine, and making... More »

E.L. Katz's debut feature film Cheap Thrills is set to have its Canadian Premiere this Sunday, August 4th at 9:35pm in the Imperial Theatre, where the Fantasia audience will experience the cinematic equivalent of being hit about the head with a... More »

Just before its world premiere at Montreal's massive Fantasia Festival tonight, Twitch is proud to premiere the first trailer for Cody Calahan's techno-apocalypse horror film Antisocial.Antisocial begins on New Year's Eve in the not so distant future. Five university friends... More »

If you have not been able to make it out to Fantasia this year, six films that played at the fest are now available to watch via iTunes Canada. Scroll down to find links to our coverage of the films... More »

The great Polish filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski is receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the fine folks at Fantasia International Film Festival. And you, dear Montreal resident and/or visitor, may enjoy the privilege of watching the man receive his award, and... More »

I missed Fantasia Fest's two opening night features, but providence at the festival's opening night party festivities saw to it that a USB with the short film that preceded The Conjuring ended up in my possession. The buzz from those... More »

The 2013 Fantasia Film Festival is now officially upon us! One of the largest, longest running, and just plain longest genre film festivals in the world, Fantasia has an overwhelming number of films and film related events to offer every... More »

What is the first thing you do when you hear that something bad has happened somewhere else in the world? You jump online or grab your smartphone, go to your trusted news sources, and you start looking for pictures and... More »

Set to open Fantasia 2013 in Montreal next week, Curse of Chuck resurrects everyone's favorite homicidal puppet. The first trailer has debuted. "It's a doll. What's the worst that can happen?" asks one sure-to-be-hapless victim, as Chucky terrorizes a new... More »

Boasting more than 100 features and a plethora of shorts, special presentations and outdoor screenings, Fantasia just launched their full 2013 website and schedule, and announced the remainder of the titles. Below you will find a return to the world... More »

Montreal's mammoth Fantasia Festival have released the second wave of titles for the 2013 edition of the fest with a ton of Canadian cinema and the latest from Miike Takashi leading the way. Check out the complete announcement below!FANTASIA 2013'S... More »

Montreal's massive Fantasia Festival has announced its first wave of titles and what's this I see? Live theater from Clive Barker? A new documentary from legendary cult filmmaker Richard Stanley? The latest from James Wan and Edgar Wright? Oh, yes,... More »

The Fantasia International Film Festival's ever-growing marketplace has announced the International Off-Frontières line-up. The projects feature additional up-and-coming talents as well as experienced filmmakers from the independent genre film world. A sampling includes the Godfather of Canadian indie cinema, Larry Kent,... More »

Anyone who has been to Montreal's genre-film extravaganza, The Fantasia International Film Festival (or just Fantasia) in the past decade or so, knows that the main screening venue, Concordia's Hall Theatre has some of the best audio acoustics in the... More »

With Tribeca and HotDocs wrapped, and Cannes gearing up, is it too early to start thinking of Montreal's Fantasia Film Festival? I say, "Hell no!" While we are well away from any programming announcements from the July-August festival, consider 2013's Frontières... More »

Netflix is constantly growing in Latin America, and while in Mexico the catalog is still nowhere as big as the North American one, several hotly anticipated TV series, such as Better Call Saul and House of Cards, are greatly helping in order to have more Mexican users. Now Netflix has...
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Socrates said, "Know thyself." A more contemporary philosopher from Oklahoma offered, "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging." Reading many business stories about Hollywood lately, it quickly becomes apparent that few have embraced either the Athenian master or the fine, folksy wisdom of Will Rogers. How else to...
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Hollywood's annual pageant of nice dresses and the complex madness of John Travolta went off pretty much as expected - a few less for American Sniper than perhaps I cynically expected, and a few more for Birdman, which ain't Boyhood, but is an off-model enough Best Picture that I can't...
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Film Comment Selects, Film Society of Lincoln Center's annual film series that showcases the best films from all corners of the world selected by folks at Film Comment magazine, marks the arrival of spring for New York cinephiles in an otherwise dreadful February/March movie season. This year's selections are as...
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"Documentary Fortnight: MoMA's International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media," which screens at the Museum of Modern Art through February 27, once again brings an impressive array of new films, retrospectives, and installations to New York audiences. Two masters of documentary, Stanley Nelson and Barbara Kopple, open and close the...
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